Re:Good luck to all Winter '08 Applicants!
by samwise on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @11:06PM
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took about 15-20 min to fill out application. would be cool to be accapted but not the end of the word if not. i think many of you rely way too much on YC. If you truly have a good idea and good team you can make work without YC and/or any funding. in any case, good luck
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Re:Good luck to all Winter '08 Applicants!
by aaroneous on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @12:09AM
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It took me a lot longer than 20 mins to give the sort of concise, well thought out answers that the application asked for. If you were able to do that in such a short amount of time, kudos.
We haven't been holding back on our idea for YC (and I agree, I wouldn't suggest any entrepreneur should wait for YC's acceptance as the green light to start their business).
We started slightly over a year ago, and publicly launched in April (did Techcrunch, GigaOm, Arstechnica, blah blah blah). So there were a few YC funding cycles where we felt we weren't ready, and didn't apply. We feel that now the time IS right for our company and YC would be a great opportunity.